Bio-optical characteristics of the Patagonia Shelf break waters: Implications for ocean color algorithms

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 136, Issue , 2013, Pages 416-432

  Ferreira, Amabile ^a   Garcia, Carlos A E ^a   Dogliotti, Ana I ^b   Garcia, Virginia M T ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Absorption; Patagonia; Phytoplankton; Remote sensing reflectance; Scattering

Indexed keywords

BIO-OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; PATAGONIA; PHYTOPLANKTON ABSORPTIONS; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; SEMI-ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS;

ABSORPTION; BLOOMS (METAL); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS;

ABSORPTION; ALGAL BLOOM; ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL A; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OPTICAL PROPERTY; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SHELF BREAK; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PATAGONIAN SHELF;

EID: 84879540334     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.05.022     Document Type: Article

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